Health care costs of case management for frequent users of the emergency department: Hospital and insurance perspectives.

BACKGROUND:In most emergency departments (EDs), few patients account for a relatively high number of ED visits. To improve the management of these patients, the university hospital of Lausanne, Switzerland, implemented an interdisciplinary case management (CM) intervention. This study examined wheth...

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Main Authors: Karine Moschetti, Katia Iglesias, Stéphanie Baggio, Venetia Velonaki, Olivier Hugli, Bernard Burnand, Jean-Bernard Daeppen, Jean-Blaise Wasserfallen, Patrick Bodenmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6152853?pdf=render